About Em

Emily is an actor, writer, director, producer and clown originally from Tucson, Arizona. Her television credits include The Blacklist (NBC) and Blue Bloods (CBS), and she appears alongside Winona Ryder and Peter Sarsgaard in the feature film Experimenter. She also stars in the short comedy White Lies, shot by Brian O’Carroll, a three-time winner of the Emerging Cinematographer Award. 

You can find her sketch and character comedy in her web series Literally Saying and other self-produced shorts on her YouTube Channel.

Her short film Broad Daylight,—a thriller about a journalist bargaining for her life during a volatile ride-along with a border agent—was an official selection of the 2018 Studio City International Film Festival and is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Emily is the Founder and Executive Producer of The Cut Off Short Collective, a short film production group with three completed films to date. 

She’s currently developing her clown solo show Grin and Bear It, premiering at the Hollywood Fringe Festival June 2025. Work-in-progress performances have been featured at Public Displays of Altadena, The Clubhouse, and the Lyric Hyperion.

Emily trains with Risa Bramon Garcia in the ongoing master class at The BGB Studio, where she also teaches Teen Acting. She has taken clown with Claire Woolner, Chad Damiani, Corey Podell, John Norris and Natasha Mercado. Her New York training includes on-camera acting with Kelly Kimball and Janine Ditullio at Kimball Studio; improv and sketch at The Upright Citizens Brigade NY with Ryan Karels, Ben Rogers, Gavin Speiller, Kevin Hines, and Kate Riley; and direting, scene study and clown at The Barrow Group with Seth Barrish, Lee Brock and Jean Taylor. She is a graduate of The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.